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Re: Happy Victoria Day Weekend ...
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Originally Posted by Judith Addison
When we were young we didn't have either May Day Bank Holiday or Spring Bank Holiday. We had Whitsun, which fell so many weeks after Easter and so varied from year to year. Also before Whitsun it was usual for schools to have a holiday on Ascension Day. Some primary schools went on a flight (an uncommon experience for children in the 1950s) and saw Accrington from the air. On the 1st of May we were at school but we danced round the maypole in the school yard. We wore our summer dresses and it was nearly always a sunny day! Or is my mind playing tricks on me after all these years?
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Think twas late 70s or very early 80s when Mayday evolved Judith. 
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